Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Hope this gives you a few ideas on items you haven't checked off your bug out bag checklist quite yet. We know one bug out bag isn't right for every occasion, but this is how we are packing our bags for a TEOTWAWKI scenario.

... the most American car is a three-way tie between the GM Acadia, Enclave, and Traverse, all with a score of 88.5.

Although non-US vehicles may rank higher in terms of the country of origin of parts and components, the fact that GM does most of its research and development in the US, and is headquartered there, moves it to the top of his ranking.

The top 50 companies (meaning highest CEO pay relative to workers), suggests it remains good to be king (and Ron Johnson just made another #1 Spot earning an estimated 1,795x the average JCP employee -money well spent...).

"They are destroying everything that gives the people incentive to be a society that emerges from the cooperation of everyone.

"When government turns against its own people, even as the USA is currently doing, you end up with deflation insofar as the economy collapses and wages are not available, while hoarding emerges as does barter." -- Martin Armstrong

Monday, April 29, 2013

One partially declassified document, marked "secret," lists three of those individuals and ties them to the Venice, Fla., flight school where suicide hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi trained.

Accomplice Ziad Jarrah took flying lessons at another school a block away.

Atta and al-Shehhi were at the controls of the jetliners that slammed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Jarrah was the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

"The Bank of Cyprus, the island's largest bank said it has converted 37.5% of deposits exceeding 100,000 euros into a Class A share, with an additional 22.5% held as a buffer for possible conversion in the future.

"Anther 30% will be temporarily frozen and held as a deposit.

"So the amount of money that has been taken from the Cyprus depositors is an all practicality almost their entire accounts.

The Obama administration has been carrying out an unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers, particularly on those who have divulged information that relates to national security.

The Espionage Act, enacted during the first World War to punish Americans who aided the enemy, had only been used three times in its history to try government officials accused of leaking classified information —until the Obama administration.

Since 2009, the administration has used the act to prosecute six government officials.

And since the US has to "grow", since US GDP has to be spoonfed to the masses as increasing at a ~1.5% annualized rate every quarter, and since US banks continue to not lend (and in fact their eagerness to not lend is further cemented by the far easier returns they can generate courtesy of the Fed in chasing stocks, and not take on NPL risk in exchange for meager 4-5% annual returns, which means a feedback loop is created where more QE means less bank lending means more QE means less bank lending), can all trivial and absolutely meaningless discussion over whether the Fed will halt QE (now or ever) finally end?

It absolutely never will, until everything one day comes crashing down.

True gardeners rarely refer to soil as simply dirt. They understand the difference between the stuff you dig up in your backyard versus the "black gold" that consist of compost, manure, decomposed organic matter and millions of beneficial microbes that are actively at work underground.

Fortunately, converting dirt to soil is an easy process. Within this context, understanding three commonly used gardening terms -texture, structure, and tilth -should help clear up one of the dirtier mysteries of gardening.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Sadly they've wandered so far down the rabbit hole that the concept of "physical demand" (i.e.people actually wanting to take possession of the stuff) is puzzling to them because the vast majority of the world's so-called "gold-trading" takes place in the realm of make believe (which is their natural habitat).

It's all fun and games until somebody loses their metal and "somebody" has lost one hell of a lot of metal in the last 90 days.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology.

You were right.

The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

We found this out in recent months, when a series of related corruption stories spilled out of the financial sector, suggesting the world's largest banks may be fixing the prices of, well, just about everything.

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It should surprise no one that among the players implicated in this scheme to fix the prices of interest-rate swaps are the same megabanks – including Barclays, UBS, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and the Royal Bank of Scotland – that serve on the Libor panel that sets global interest rates.

[…]

Two of America's top law-enforcement officials, Attorney General Eric Holder [shocker] and former Justice Department Criminal Division chief Lanny Breuer, confessed that it's dangerous to prosecute offending banks because they are simply too big. Making arrests, they say, might lead to "collateral consequences" in the economy.

[…]

The idea that prices in a $379 trillion market could be dependent on a desk of about 20 guys in New Jersey should tell you a lot about the absurdity of our financial infrastructure.

The whole thing, in fact, has a darkly comic element to it. "It's almost hilarious in the irony," says David Frenk, director of research for Better Markets, a financial-reform advocacy group, "that they called it ISDAfix."

After scandals involving libor and, perhaps, ISDAfix, the question that should have everyone freaked out is this: What other markets out there carry the same potential for manipulation?

The answer to that question is far from reassuring, because the potential is almost everywhere.

From gold to gas to swaps to interest rates, prices all over the world are dependent upon little private cabals of cigar-chomping insiders we're forced to trust.

"In all the over-the-counter markets, you don't really have pricing except by a bunch of guys getting together," Masters notes glumly.

That includes the markets for gold (where prices are set by five banks in a Libor-ish teleconferencing process that, ironically, was created in part by N M Rothschild & Sons) and silver (whose price is set by just three banks), as well as benchmark rates in numerous other commodities – jet fuel, diesel, electric power, coal, you name it. The problem in each of these markets is the same:

We all have to rely upon the honesty of companies like Barclays (already caught and fined $453 million for rigging Libor) or JPMorgan Chase (paid a $228 million settlement for rigging municipal-bond auctions) or UBS (fined a collective $1.66 billion for both muni-bond rigging and Libor manipulation) to faithfully report the real prices of things like interest rates, swaps, currencies and commodities.

All of these benchmarks based on voluntary reporting are now being looked at by regulators around the world, and God knows what they'll find.

The European Federation of Financial Services Users wrote in an official EU survey last summer that all of these systems are ripe targets for manipulation. "In general," it wrote, "those markets which are based on non-attested, voluntary submission of data from agents whose benefits depend on such benchmarks are especially vulnerable of market abuse and distortion."

Translation: When prices are set by companies that can profit by manipulating them, we're fucked.

"You name it," says Frenk. "Any of these benchmarks is a possibility for corruption."

The only reason this problem has not received the attention it deserves is because the scale of it is so enormous that ordinary people simply cannot see it.

It's not just stealing by reaching a hand into your pocket and taking out money, but stealing in which banks can hit a few keystrokes and magically make whatever's in your pocket worth less.

This is corruption at the molecular level of the economy, Space Age stealing – and it's only just coming into view.

In the first half, authors Steven Greer and Paola Harris discussed the Atacama humanoid as well as UFO disclosure.

In the latter half of the program, remote viewing teacher, Ed Dames, talked about his predictions that North Korea would use a nuclear weapon in anger and how a global economic collapse would happen concurrently with a pandemic in the not too distant future.

The H7N9 flu now evolving before Humanity's eyes in China has killed 18 percent of the 108 people with lab-confirmed infections as of April 22.

That's a lethality about nine times the mortality rate of the Great Influenza of 1918-19, which claimed at least 50 million lives by lowball estimate, and up to 100 million based on extrapolation from colonial-era records in India and African countries. (There is no consensus regarding how many people perished in China in 1918.)

More worrying, only about 9 percent of the confirmed H7N9 cases in China have walked out of hospital, cured of their infections; one has been asymptomatic; and the remainder are still hospitalized, many suffering multiple organ failure and illnesses from which they are unlikely to recover.

[...]

In 1985, researchers showed that two key mutations in bird flu viruses occurring simultaneously could switch them to forms capable of spreading among mammals.

When H5N1 appeared in Hong Kong in 1997, local flu experts took some comfort in discovery that the virus had not made those mutational changes, so spread among people was unlikely.

And since that time the WHO has nervously monitored strains of the virus emerging worldwide, looking for evidence that these mutations had been made.

Thankfully, they have not.

But in 2012, two labs working independently -- one in the Netherlands, the other in the United States -- controversially deliberately made those mutations in H5N1 under controlled conditions, confirming that a bird virus with those gene switches could spread from one ferret to another, through the air coughed between them.

The H7N9 virus now circulating in China has those mutations.

As Ron Fouchier, the Dutch researcher who did the ferret experiment told me, "This virus really doesn't look like a bird virus anymore; it looks like a mammalian one."

This month, Glenn Duncan, owner of Duncan's Outdoor Store in Bay City, Mich., said he received a letter from GE Capital Retail Bank in which the lender said it had made "the difficult decision" to stop providing financing services to his store.

Other gun dealers have received similar notices.

With the Senate failing to pass Obama's signature gun control legislation this week, it appears that the banksters are taking the destruction of the 2nd amendment into their own hands.

Considering the lack of transparency of the Chinese government one can only guess, literally, at what the true morbidity and mortality statistics of the flu epidemic are, which is perhaps the main reason this ongoing story for the past two months has so far evaded major coverage.

However, as more and more cases are reported outside of China, the world will have no choice but to start paying attention, especially with the WHO announced that...

"This is one of the most lethal influenza viruses we have seen so far."

..."the point of maximum pessimism" has been reached, to where in response, staggering physical demand nearly broke the leveraged paper gold system over the last week.

[Additionally], there were 15 journalists calling me on Monday…[including] many former colleagues, people who haven’t called me in years and they were [all] really panicking…They have no clue what’s going on, [and] they [all] think…Cyprus was responsible for this take-down… [So] over the last week we’ve seen desperation, panic, and anger.”

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

"You will not see economic growth until you liquidate the debt and liquidate the malinvestment out there," is the hard truth that former Congressman Ron Paul lays on Bloomberg TV in this wide-ranging interview.

Monday morning Glenn Beck laid out what he knows about the Saudi connection to the Boston marathon bombings.

It is a story that the mainstream media has all but completely ignored, though Beck says TheBlaze's Chief Content Officer Joel Cheatwood reached out to numerous other networks in an effort to get the story out.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refused to acknowledge the story even existed when questioned by Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) last Friday.

As the planetary fiscal/financial infrastructure melts down, the 'powers that be' will push the various elements of GUS (gov'mint of The United States of America, a corporation, chartered illegally by congress in 1877...) to react badly.

"One of my pet scenarios for Clif's linguistically predicted Global Coastal Event is that the blowback from the 1971 five-megaton Cannikin underground blast in Alaska is what sets off the global coastal event….weakening earth structures enough to provide for a massive movement of the Pacific Tectonic Plate." -- George Ure, Urban Survival

A smart phone with it's integrated GPS, email, calendaring, office suites, a zillion apps and the ability to call and text is a true wonder of the modern age, but there is also a potential dark side to this technological marvel.

Every time you slip it in your pocket you are on the radar and your movements, position, orientation and conversations are all open to someone.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

Radio host Glenn Beck has reportedly obtained information regarding the Saudi Arabian national initially detained as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

According to Beck, the lies surrounding this suspect run so deep that should they become public they will have consequences so severe that the United State of America as we know it will be "done" if the Obama Administration is not held to account.

If this report from Beck is legitimate, and we suspect it is, then somewhere in Washington President Obama, Valeria Jarret, Janet Napolitano and others are having a crisis meeting as we speak.

What does he know?

Whatever it is, Glenn Beck implies that it is powerful enough to bring down the Administration.

In all the jubilation last night following the capture of the 19 year terrorism suspect, virtually everyone missed news that a massive 7.0 magnitude quake according to the China Earthquake Administration (and 6.6 according to the USGS including countless aftershocks) hit China's Sichuan province, leaving at least 156 dead and over 2200 injured according to the latest estimate from Xinhua.

The greatest threat of a tsunami for the U.S. east coast from a nearby offshore earthquake stretches from the coast of New England to New Jersey, according to John Ebel of Boston College, who presented his findings today at the Seismological Society of America 2013 Annual Meeting.

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

Looking like an apparition rising from whitecaps of interstellar foam, the iconic Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery more than a century ago.

Stein has managed to stick his foot in his mouth for the second time in a row, and do what virtually nobody in the status quo is capable of: tell the truth.

In a speech titled "Regulating Large Financial Institutions" Stein made something very clear: if and when a TBTF fails, and since this time is not different, and a failure is only a matter of time, depositors will lose everything (courtesy of some $300 trillion in gross unnetted liabilities which once there is a counterparty chain failure, suddenly become very much net and immediately marginable -a drain of cash), which now that Cyprus is the template, is to be expected.

Mayor Mike Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" political pressure group seems to have an inordinate number of "crime fighting" mayors who have been caught doing all manner of illegalities including drunk driving, child pornography and attempted seduction, influence peddling, fraud, assault, theft of government funds, and attempted homosexual rape.)

The USGS says the origin was fairly shallow, only 10 kilometers (6 miles) deep, and at an epicenter of roughly 275 km (170 miles) northeast of the Russian-administered Kuril Islands, and 528 km (328 miles) northeast of Hokkaido's town of Nemuro.

While the area is roughly 1,500 km (930 miles) north of Tokyo, some in the Japanese capital said they felt some mild shaking.

If you're like me, you love to read about the "old-timey" ways of doing things, and you study preserving foods in a more traditional, pre-Industrial way.

However, I'm forever frustrated that almost every cook book, website, etc. that deals with food preservation immediately turns to refrigeration or freezing throughout the process, as if those methods were always available in the days before the ubiquitous use of electricity.

Up to 15 people are thought to have been killed and more than 160 injured after a massive explosion and fire tore through a fertiliser plant and razed dozens of homes in the small Texas town of West (20 miles north of Waco) on Wednesday night.

Two passports that are relatively quick and easy to get are those from Uruguay and Paraguay. Both countries are members of the Mercosur group of South American countries, which offers some additional advantages to their nationals.

One of the best, I'm given to understand –and this is constantly changing –is a Singapore passport. I also understand that Singapore has a number of ways to become a citizen in a relatively short period of time.

What are some of the shortcuts to second citizenship?

One of the best is if you have parents or grandparents from a country that will give you citizenship on that basis.

Ireland and Italy are known for this.

It's true, under some circumstances, for the UK as well.

Saint Kitts is a relatively easy place to get a passport quite quickly, but it involves a significant investment that adds up to a couple hundred thousand dollars. Selling IDs is a significant source of income for the island.

The average bandwidth seen in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks has recently increased by a factor of seven, jumping from 6 Gbps to 48 Gbps.

Furthermore, 10% of DDoS attacks now exceed 60 Gbps.

As DDoS attack sizes increase, so do fears of an Armageddon scenario [link], in which the attack not only disrupts a targeted site, but every site or service provider in between.

According to Prolexic's report, the largest single attack it's mitigated to date occurred in March, when an "enterprise customer" was hit with an attack that peaked at 130 Gbps. While that wasn't equal to the 300 Gbps attack experienced by Spamhaus [link], it still represents well more than most businesses can handle, unless they work with their service provider or third parties to build a better DDoS mitigation defense.

The source of attacks doesn't mean that a country's government or even criminal gangs are directly responsible for launching DDoS campaigns.

For example, the Operation Ababil bank disruption campaign being run by al-Qassam Cyber Fighters [link] relies in part on hacking into vulnerable WordPress servers and installing such DDoS toolkits as "itsoknoproblembro" --aka Brobot [link].

Attackers then use command-and-control servers to issue attack instructions to the toolkits, thus transforming legitimate websites into DDoS launch platforms.

The Australian mint is short of deliverables and Japanese and Chinese gold retailers are seeing a "frenzied" surge in demand.

The customers are not just the 'rich' or 'elderly'; in China "they tend to wear water shoes and come directly from the market...;" in Australia, "the volume of business... is way in excess of double what we did last week,...there's been people running through the gate," and Japanese individual investors doubled gold purchases yesterday at Tokuriki Honten, the country's second-largest retailer of the precious metal.

The panic selling by a weaker 'imminent inflation-based' investor base has sparked physical shortages -"there's been significant sales made as people see this as great value."

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream, including toxins produced by MRSA, E. Coli, poisonous snakes and bees.

The nanosponges are made of a biocompatible polymer core wrapped in a natural red blood cell membrane.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The batteries owe their high performance to their internal three-dimensional microstructure.

Batteries have two key components: the anode (minus side) and cathode (plus side).

Building on a novel fast-charging cathode design by materials science and engineering professor Paul Braun's group, King and Pikul developed a matching anode and then developed a new way to integrate the two components at the microscale to make a complete battery with superior performance.

With so much power, the batteries could enable sensors or radio signals that broadcast 30 times farther, or devices 30 times smaller.

The batteries are rechargeable and can charge 1,000 times faster than competing technologies – imagine juicing up a credit-card-thin phone in less than a second.

In addition to consumer electronics, medical devices, lasers, sensors and other applications could see leaps forward in technology with such power sources available.

First noted by astroecon whiz Bob Hitt. The idea is simple: When the public is starting to whip itself up into a frenzy over the wrong thing [e.g. the market and the Depression unfolding] all that's needed is a properly sized emotionally impacting event to 'switch the panic off' by, as Hitt explained it back when "…diverting that emotional energy somewhere else…"

Take yesterday – the coincidence of it is undeniable: Market was down more than 200 and the decline speeding up. And worse – from a technical standpoint – the five-minute volume numbers which had been running 2-2.5 million shares (every five minutes), saw a 14-million share dump in the final five minutes. But what happened as the decline looked unstoppable and like it might break even further including perhaps global meltdown? The mysterious explosions in Boston: Three dead, no sign of a perp, but a lot of readers wondering "Why did Wolfer Blitzen ask about a Tea Party member… was this a false flag, or what was that about?"

It was only a week ago that Iran was shaken by a major 6.1 earthquake, striking just 100 km away from the Busher nuclear power plant: a location so "opportune" some, so inclined, saw in this phenomenon another demonstration of the HAARP's capabilities.

Those same people will then hardly be surprised to learn that moments ago the entire middle east, from Dubai to Delhi, shook in the aftermath of yet another massive earthquake this time measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale, which once again was located as the USGS reports, some 86 km East South East of Khash, Iran.

... Or they may have one or more weapons pre-positioned on US soil, via Mexico say, perhaps with help from well placed Weather Underground diehards working with a narco-crime cartel, a sort of Fast And Superfurious.

Analysts claim any attack would likely be preceded by massive web hacking, so there's a tipoff.

With adolescent adults in our halls of power busy taking revenge on reality, the hard cases of this world have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to surprise us.

Pearl Harbor and the attack of September 11th 2001 argue against dismissing North Korea's threat outright.

"Medicalproducts Ltd, Inc. is one of the oldest and currently the leading manufacturer of body bags in the United States.

"In addition, we are the prime vendor supplier to the Department of Defense and have been awarded the Vendor Excellence Award for high quality and prompt delivery.

"Since our establishment in 1994, we have gradually become a trusted resource of death care products to Medical Examiners, Coroners, Transport Services, Mortuary Service Companies and Hospitals throughout the U.S., Canada, and world markets.

"Finally, since we manufacture at our plant in Eagle Pass, TX, we can shorten delivery of product to a matter of days rather than weeks and months required by our 'off-shore only' competitors."

He calls it "Surviving Collapse - The Property Purchase Checklist". And it is about 1% about collapse-ish stuff. And about 24% property purchase stuff. But really, it is an excellent video about looking at a property and moving from bare land into a the main design of the property. Excellent animations. He waves his hand and a pond appears. Waves it again and forest appears.

If you believe that what has happened recently in Cyprus is unlikely to happen elsewhere, think again. Economic policy officials in the US, UK and other countries are preparing for it. Remember, someone has to pay. Will it be you? If you are a depositor, the answer is yes.

Events recorded in various Maya locations "can now be harmonized with greater assurance to other environmental, climatic and archaeological data sets from this and adjacent regions and suggest that climate change played an important role in the development and demise of this complex civilization," the researchers wrote.

In his new book, "The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth," Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Mark Mazzetti tracks the transformation of the CIA and U.S. special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world's dark spaces: the new American way of war.

The book's revelations include disclosing that the Pakistani government agreed to allow the drone attacks in return for the CIA's assassination of Pakistani militant Nek Muhammad, who was not even a target of the United States.

Over at Clif's site a number of his earlier audio WuJos [mp3] are now free, and still very much worth a listen if you haven't grokked all the hints around here about April 13-19 and the data gap and why our odds of war on the Korean peninsula are now on the order of 50-50. - Urban Survival

"War is just a matter of time," North Koreans were told today, and that "no one [in the South] will live to regret anything."

All of this could just be a prelude to a missile test to celebrate the anniversary [the nations' biggest holiday, the April 15 birthday of North Korea founder Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current leader], but Pyongyang is burning up a lot of political capital for just another missile test.

The lack of security in communication technologies used in the aviation industry makes it possible to remotely exploit vulnerabilities in critical on-board systems and attack aircraft in flight, according to research presented Wednesday at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the worldwide Disclosure Movement and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence is working with Emmy award winning filmmaker Amardeep Kaleka and his team at Neverending Light Productions to produce one of the most significant films of our time.

This film exposes the greatest story never told:

The Earth has been visited by people from other worlds who are not malicious, but in fact concerned for the future humanity.

A cabal of military, industrial and financial interests have kept this contact and what we have learned from it secret over 60 years.

Their secrecy is meant to suppress the knowledge that can liberate the world from the yoke of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power and replace the current world order with one of New Energy and true Freedom.

Within hours of South Korean news sources breaking a story that several Sang-Ho class submarines had disappeared from their North Korean bases, a ham radio operator named Tim, picked up a "numbers station" broadcasting on the same frequency as "The Voice of Korea" propaganda station.

What makes this even more interesting is that at the tail end of the numbers transmission there was a long duration digital transmission as well.

Sinclair: "The entire world is on fire and most people don't don't even realize it. The world is literally ablaze with the creation of money, and there will be hell to pay for what is taking place right now.

"The monetary policy of Japan has now spread out from Japan to Europe and will eventually infect the entire globe.

"Markets now give the appearance of having no rules.

"This is a world that, for the time being, seems to have repealed the normal law of consequences, but I can assure you this will end in tears…."

If you have been following Clif's WuJo, then you may have heard him mention the window that comes along April 13-19, just sort of dropped the date-range in passing in one of his reports, which is unfortunately smack on the April 15th birthday of Kid Korea's dad, which is a national holiday and would be a dandy time to invade the South.

Proximate to "data gap."

Although I like to think that an attack on America using EMP devices is an incredibly small percentage-wise possibility, I nevertheless will be putting our home in the outback on 'Faraday-Ready" status Friday of this week due to Clif's data gap and recent events driven by North Korea.

I recognize that the odds of something happening which could impact the US are smaller than even single-digits.

Yet the potential payoff is huge, looking at things the other way.

After all, North Korea's recent mention of Austin, Texas is –to my ears –a clear warning that they have designs on the US power grid.

I don't trust 'em even a tiny bit.

What are they up to this morning?

Well, they are now warning foreigners in South Korea to seek shelter or consider evacuating because the Korean Peninsula is on the brink of nuclear war.

Corpse-filled waterways in China are not exactly a new problem, yet they have attracted heightened attention in recent weeks because of the dumping of more than 16,000 pig carcasses—many of them disease-ridden—into the Huangpu River, which runs through the middle of Shanghai and provides more than a fifth of the city's drinking water.

Farmers also unloaded more than a thousand lifeless ducks into the Nan River in Sichuan province.

Our friends Dan and Sheila at Surviving Survivalism have made their wildly popular book available for free as an electronic download to anyone who's interested in learning more about what it takes to really live the prepper and survivalist lifestyle.

Like many of us, they lived the suburban life, plugged directly into the system.

They eventually unplugged, relocated to rural America and became self sufficient.

They've built their own home with their bare hands.

They produce their own food.

They do not rely on the system as we know it to survive – at all.

And, they have always been happy to share their knowledge with those looking to get off the grid.

In addition to extensive information and suggestions covering topics that include developing your land, security, food production, alternative power and everything else you might need to know about living a self reliant lifestyle, Dan and Sheila take extra care to explain the reality of going off-grid.

Should the market finally be allowed to reflect the underlying economy - not the administration represented economy, but the real one - then everything that has transpired in the past five years will be child's play compared to what's coming.

In a secret US cable published online by WikiLeaks, former ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield (now Asst. Secretary of State), outlines a comprehensive plan to infiltrate and destabilize former President Hugo Chavez' government.

Saturday, April 6, 2013

The "anti-drone hoodie" was the central attraction of Harvey's Stealth Wear exhibition, which opened in central London in January, billed as a showcase for "counter-surveillance fashions".

It is a field Harvey has been pioneering for three years now, making headlines in the tech community along the way.

It began in 2010 with Camoflash, an anti-paparazzi handbag that responds to the unwanted camera flashes with a counter-flash of its own, replacing the photograph's intended subject with a fuzzy orb of bright white light.

Buried in a story published last month about an alleged assassination plot against North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, there was an ominous intelligence report detailing North Korea's "three-stage scenario" to create fear of a nuclear war.

According to their calculations, static stretching reduces strength in the stretched muscles by almost 5.5 percent, with the impact increasing in people who hold individual stretches for 90 seconds or more.

While the effect is reduced somewhat when people's stretches last less than 45 seconds, stretched muscles are, in general, substantially less strong.

North Korea has begun moving its mid-range missile launchers, possibly indicating a looming test as tensions are already boiling on the peninsula, U.S. officials told Fox News.

Earlier Thursday, South Korea said North Korea moved a missile with "considerable range" to its east coast after an unnamed spokesman for the North Korean army warned the U.S. Wednesday that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.